re: So uhhhh could LSU, in theory, take a transfer QB right now that could start the season?

Another big hole for next season already sticking out at QB. Let's bribe somebody in the portal ...

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It does highlight how poorly this staff has done at assembling a QB room though, IMO.

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I’m sorry but this has gotta be just about the single dumbest criticism I’ve ever seen levied on this board (which is saying a lot).

Right now, LSU’s QB1 has the second best heisman odds in the country, and would probably be first but for the fact that one of his competitors has a super recognizable last name and plays for the preseason #1 team. In other words, LSU’s QB1 situation might be the absolute best in the country. It’s certainly in the running.


Behind that, our likely QB2 is a guy who 1) has already shown that he can be a capable SEC starter, 2) has natural physical talent to suggest that he’s capable of being even better than that, *and* 3) is still plenty young enough that improvement should be the *expectation*, not just an outside possibility. How many major programs have a QB2 with that combination of floor and ceiling? The answer is very few - and the ones that do are teams where there really *isnt* even a QB2, because the top 2 guys are still battling each other for the starting job. Among teams with a no-doubt stud QB1 entrenched at the top of the depth chart, MVB is basically as good of a QB2 as you can hope for. The *only* way you can really wind up with a better QB2 is if you have a true freshman who turns out to be an instant impact sort of talent (incredibly rare) or a rising sophomore who is the same (also rare, bc in 90% of cases those guys transfer out). Importantly, though, in neither of those situations has the team actually seen the guy do it before - so in neither case does the team actually KNOW that they’ll be able to rely on him as a high quality QB2. You can roll the dice on one of those guys, but way more guys—even highly recruited guys—turn out to NOT be that good that quickly than the opposite. The likelihood that MVB would be unable to give you halfway decent fill-in QB play are lower than for the large majority of other QB2s.

What’s more: LSU even has another guy—who has both a) talent to get excited about and b) time in the program—to push MVB for the QB2 spot. So whatever the odds are that MVB would be unable to give you a couple games of competent QB play, you have to bump them down a little further when considering LSU’s QB2 situation as a whole; and whatever the odds the MVB would be able to come in and actually give you really really good QB play, you have to bump those up a little when considering LSU’s QB2 situation as a whole. That ultimately puts us in as good a position as almost anyone with respect to QB2.


And lastly, even beyond those guys, we ALSO happen to have a super-athlete wildcard QB who is sufficiently talented and has enough past experience at QB to go a totally different direction and still have a puncher’s chance of catching teams off guard if some sort of emergency strikes and we don’t think we can get away with running a normal offense anymore. That’s another dimension that most teams either a) don’t have, or b) are already counting on as their Plan B.


And that’s just this year! In 2024, we at least had a quality starter, even if we were thin behind him. The year before that, in 2023, we had the single best QB1 in the country (the heisman winner) **and** the single best QB2 in the country (he threw for more yards against UGA in *one half* than any other QB not named CJ Stroud did all season in a whole game). And in 2022 when this staff first got here, they inherited a room that basically had one promising but unproven young guy and nothing else, and they made a super shrewd addition that both kept us afloat where very few other QBs (and certainly none who were realistically available to us) would have been able AND turned into a future superstar. All while retaining the promising young guy.



Long story short: Even WITH the HS recruiting misses, LSU’s management of the QB room under the current staff has been basically as good as you can possibly ask for.